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Kentucky enters the 21st century

In Kentucky, last week, “a bill to make 18 the legal age for marriage in Kentucky…stalled in a Senate committee amid concerns about the rights of parents to allow children to wed at a younger age.” Right now, Kentucky law allows a judge to approve a marriage for anyone under 16, no matter what the age of the potential spouse is. According to state records, girls as young as 13 were married in the last few years. The bill wouldn’t allow any marriage under 17, and, in that case, a judge must be involved.

Social media got hold of the failure of the Senate committee to advance the bill, and, what do you know, all of a sudden it was back yesterday and it easily passed. Oh, sure, there were the usual bizarro fucknuts opposing it, like Republican Dan Seum, who stupidly said, “”I as a parent couldn’t let my pregnant 16-year-old daughter marry the guy that loves her, give the baby a name?” This led to the best smackdown by another Republican, Ralph Alvarado, who is a pediatrician: “I would argue they need more of a father than a husband at that age.” A bit patriarchal, sure, but it’s good to see evolution in action.

The bill was brought forward by Republican Senators Alice Forgy Kerr and Julie Raque Adams. And, in testimony before the Kentucky Senate Judiciary Committee, former victim Donna Pollard told her story about the 29 year-old man who first statutorily raped when she was 14. By the time she was 16, she had married her rapist with permission from her mother, who herself had married at 13. Years later, Pollard got divorced and became a kickass advocate against child marriage.

As far as the profanity here, fucknut is a proper description. Kickass is now accepted as a movie title.

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